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Re: per-version hints proposal


On 06/21/2016 06:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> * 'curr', 'prev' and 'test' don't make sense on a per-version basis.  So I
>> suggest a separate file for these version overrides (versions.hint?)
> 
> Ideally we wouldn't need something like "prev" at all since the version
> number itself is sufficient to specify what's curr and what's old.

Except when upstream version numbers go backwards.  We'd have to adopt
something like Fedora's "epoch" numbering if we want our version numbers
to always be increasing (by bumping the epoch any time upstream versions
go backwards).

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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